Job 29:16
A father I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
In Context
15Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame [am] I.
17And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
Cross References
Exodus 18:26and they have judged the people at all times; the hard matter they bring in unto Moses, and every small matter they judge themselves.
Deuteronomy 17:8'When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke — matters of strife within thy gates — then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix,
1 Kings 3:16then come in do two women, harlots, unto the king, and stand before him,
Job 24:4They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.
Job 31:18(But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)
Job 31:32In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.
Matthew Henry on Job 29:8-18
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The… Read the whole commentary →